From the President s Desk

 

Dear Community Members, 

Namskar!!

I have often said that Pakistan sponsored terrorists will first kill Kashmiri Pandits, then non-K.P. Hindus living in the valley and then Hindus living in other parts of India. That is what is happening. The massacre of KPs began in 1990. Later came the turn of Hindus, hailing from Jammu and from other parts of the country and living in Kashmir. Now such terrorists are making the lives of Hindus, living outside Jammu and Kashmir, also, insecure.

On June 28 last, two terrorists, masquerading as customers, entered a shop. in Rajasthan's Udaipur and beheaded a Hindu tailor in the same way the Mughal king Aurangzeb got Guru Tag Bahadur and his two disciples beheaded in Delhi. The June 28 assassins, Riaz Akhtari and Gaus Mohammad, said that they were separating the head from the body of the 40-year-old tailor Kanhaiya lal, because he had shown support for a person who had used disrespectful language for the Prophet of Islam. The terrorists stabbed the victim 26 times. So much blood flowed from his body that when he was taken for treatment, he died before reaching the hospital. The terrorists said they would attack Prime Minister Modi also. The beheading has shocked Hindus throughout the world. Such assassins are trying to create an atmosphere in the country so that Hindus feel insecure, even in the nation which has the biggest population of Hindus. The duo terrorists had decided to kill the victim at his home, but they could not find his address. Kanhaiyalal was receiving death threats. He did not go to his shop for many days. On June 28, he went there. The assassins had been keeping a watch on him.

One of the terrorists, Gauds, had visited. Pakistan in 2014 and, later, radicalised Riyaz, a welder, who was living with him. The sharp-edged cleaver used in the crime was made by Riyaz four years ago.

After the beheading incident, many Hindus are receiving threats from terrorists. Sh. Naveen Jindal, who has been expelled from BJP, over his remarks, on the Prophet, says that he has received three emails threatening him and his family. Those who have threatened have told him that Sh. Jindal, and his family will meet the same fate as tailor Kanhaiya lal. Nupur and her family are receiving rape and death threats.

Developments taking place in the valley, too, are disheartening, disappointing. A banned Jamaat has been found diverting charity money for spreading terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir. In the properties belonging to members of the banned Jamaat-e-Islamiat at various locations in the Valley digital storage devices and sheaves of documents purportedly showing funds collected in the name of charity being funnelled into secessionist activities have been found.

Members of the organisation have been collecting funds domestically and abroad through donations, particularly in the form of zakat, mowda and bait-ul-mal, which are purportedly meant for charity and other welfare activities. But these funds are being used for secessionist activities, including violence.

Funds raised by the Jamaat are also being passed on to Pakistan-backed terror outfits such as Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taiba and others. Jamaat members have also been radicalisng and recruiting local youth for "disruptive secessionist activities."

The premises raided, in this connection, included the residence of Farooq Ahmad Bhat alias Khaki, a resident of Chinar Bagh Pahroo on the outskirts of Srinagar and a senior functionary of Jamaat's Budgam unit. Houses belonging to Jamaat members Khursheed Sanai and Bilal Ahmad Mir were searched. So were the premises of Hafizullah Ganie and Shoaib Mohammad Choor in north Kashmir.

Nearly 300 educational institutions run by Falah-e-Aam Trust (FAT), an offshoot of banned Jamaat-e-Islami (Jel) have been shut by the J&K administration.

The action followed investigation in the cases against Jel being conducted by the State Investigation Agency (SIA) amid reports of foreign funding through a number of bank accounts.

There were reports that jihadi literature was also taught in some of the schools run by the FAT. The SIA had gathered credible evidence about circulation of undesirable literature to pollute mind of students following which the School Education Department (SED) of Jammu and Kashmir Government came out with the order directing sealing of the institutions and cessation of their operations. 

In 1990 also, when the then Governor's administration banned Jamaat-e-Islami. It had banned FAT also. FAT teachers were then absorbed in Government services. However, the court had overturned ban on FAT. As rough estimates, about 50,000 students are enrolled in FAT-run educational institutions while over 5,000 teachers are engaged.

FAT was set up by Jamat-e-Islami and registered by the Government on July 31, 1972. However, on February 28, 2019, the then Union Home Ministry, headed by Sh. Rajnath Singh, banned Jamaat-e-Islami, Jammu and Kashmir, on grounds of being in close touch with militants. Police and magistrates had then sealed several Jamaat-e-Islami offices across Jammu and Kashmir and also issued notices to schools run by FAT asking them to close down.

However, later, the Government had come out with a clarification that these schools will not be closed down.

During the investigation of cases, the State Investigation Agency came across series of evidence linking FAT-run schools with foreign funding, circulation of jihadi literature and polluting minds of teenagers. prompting the Government to shut down the educational institutions.

According to the officials, FAT is an affiliate of radical outfit Jamaat-e-Islami (Jel) which is proscribed by Ministry of Home Affairs under the provisions of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.

The FAT-affiliated institutions played a destructive role in large-scale unrests of 2008, 2010 and 2016 bringing huge miseries to common people and forcing them for shutdown by threat, intimidation and street violence.

Interestingly, almost all FAT schools numbering over 300 have been found to be existing on illegally acquired Government and community lands wherein lands were occupied by coercion, at gunpoint as well as colluding with revenue officials who made wrong entities in revenue documents by committing fraud and forgery.

The SIA has registered FIRS in such matters and the agency is expanding the ambit of these investigations to unearth other such frauds, unauthorised entities and forgeries that have been committed in last 30 years at the behest of terrorists and for other consideration which include monetary gratifications.

Before Article 370 was nullified, Kashmir-centrist leaders appointed well known terrorists in sensitive departments. Some of whom had returned from Pakistan, after receiving training there in creating a violent atmosphere and in killing unarmed civilians who did not support their disruptive programmes. As a result, such officials did not allow patriotic persons to discharge their duties in a civilised manner.

In such circumstances, lives and security of KPs will continue to remain unsafe. A majority of them, the exiled ones, cannot collect courage to return to the valley. The only remedy is to provide this community a homeland in the valley where the provisions of the Indian Constitution run in letter and spirit.

In an otherwise dismayed atmosphere in the country over the killing of innocent Hindus, it is heartening to note that from July 2 last, two teams of 20 Indian Army and Air Force have started an expedition to trek from Delhi to Drass in Ladakh on bicycles. The teams are being led by women officers of the two wings. The Army team will be led by Major Sreshti Sharma. In 2019, she was awarded Chief of Integrated Staff Commendation card. The Air Force side will move under the leadership of Squadron Leader Menka. In 2016 she became the recipient of Air Officer Commanding-in Chief Central Command Commendation card.

From Delhi, the bicycle teams will move via Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. En route, their members will talk to school children. The teams will have to endure the Ladakh region's environmental difficulties, including the lack of oxygen there.

During a period of 24 days, the bicyclists will have to go up and down the 16,000 kilometer journey. On July 26, the expedition will reach Drass, where it will pay tribute to the Indian defence personnel who made the supreme sacrifice of their lives in driving away the Pakistani armed intruders in the Pakistan-India war. The tribute-paying function will be held at the monument, set up in connection with that war. In that historic place, the Northern Command General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Lt. Gen. Upendra Dwivedi will unfurl the flag of the expedition and provide it with a send off for the onward march.

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Courtesy:  Koshur Samachar 2022, July